AROUND THE QUADS
Former Trustee Returns to Board
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ichael J. Dubilier ’73 was re-elected to the Board of Trustees this fall. Having previously served as a Trustee from 1995 to 2007, Michael has rejoined the board after a six-year hiatus. During that time, however, Michael continued to maintain his involvement with the leadership of the school, serving as an ex-officio member of the board’s Investment Committee and serving as a member of the Head’s Search Committee in 2007–08. Michael is a managing partner of Dubilier & Company in Stamford, Connecticut, a private investment firm that he formed in 1994. Previously he had been a partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, the private equity investment firm founded by his father, Martin H. Dubilier ’44 in 1978. A four-year boarding student from Larchmont, New York, Michael later earned a bachelor’s degree at Connecticut College, received an M.B.A. at the American Graduate School of International Relations, and attended the New York University Stern School of Business. He and his wife, Minnie, live in Greenwich, Connecticut, with their son, Tate, 14, and daughter, Riley, 12.
International Lecture Series Launches with Talk on Strategic Force
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RUSTEE Nancy Walbridge Collins ’91, the inaugural speaker in the Bussel Family International Lecture Series, shared her insights this fall about global terrorist threats and the United States response to these dangers. An expert in international affairs and a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, Nancy also advises the U.S. Defense Department on military special operations. Her talk, titled “Utility of Strategic Force,” drew an interested audience of Trustees, students, faculty, and guests. Nancy showed a number of video clips and reviewed major global terrorist threats and actions that the United States has faced going back to the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics of 1972, the Iran hostage crisis of 1979–81, the 1983 bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, and the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu “Black Hawk Down” debacle in Somalia — as well as ongoing concerns in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. She raised questions about the usefulness of conventional military forces against the threat of terrorism and expressed her view that the United States lacks a coherent consensus on effective ways to combat terrorist threats. “Classic models aren’t going to work going forward,” she said. Following her remarks, Nancy addressed a number of questions from the audience
Director of the Center for Global Studies Alec McCandless, Ann B. Bussel, Deborah Bussel, Trustee and lecturer Nancy Walbridge Collins ’91, and Trustee John Bussel ’87 gather after the inaugural Bussel Family International Lecture. Photos: John Groo
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in the Hoffman Ensemble Room of the Hubbard Music Center. Nancy teaches international affairs and security studies at Columbia University. She is a research fellow with the University’s Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies as well as co-chair of the Columbia Seminar on Defense and Security. Her essays and commentaries appear in scholarly journals and in the media. She serves on the U.S. Commission on Military History and is a member of the Atlantic Council and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance as well as the Council on Foreign Relations. Nancy earned a bachelor’s degree in government from Georgetown University and a master’s degree and doctorate in history from the University of London, where she was named the Thornley Fellow, an international prize. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from, among others, the University of Chicago, U.S. Congress, Harvard University, Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Yale University. Trustee John Bussel ’87; his mother, Ann B. Bussel; and his sister, Deborah Bussel, recently established the Bussel Family International Lecture Series “to bring experts in international relations, diplomacy, international economics and business, human rights, and the environment who come from the United States and throughout the world to Loomis Chaffee to inform and engage students, faculty, parents, as well as members of the local community, on issues that impact both our nation and nations around the globe,” John explains. The series aims to promote Loomis Chaffee’s commitment to “educating students for service in the nation and in today’s global civilization,” as stated in the school’s Mission Statement. John invited Nancy, his friend and fellow Trustee, to be the inaugural speaker in the series. Future presenters in the series will be selected by Alexander McCandless, the Christopher H. Lutz Director of the school’s Center for Global Studies.